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==Current Trackage==
Primarily concentrated west of the Mississippi River, UP directly owns and operates track in 23 U.S. states: [[Arizona]], [[Arkansas]], [[California]], [[Colorado]], [[Idaho]], [[Illinois]], [[Iowa]], [[Kansas]], [[Louisiana]], [[Minnesota]], [[Missouri]], [[Montana]], [[Nebraska]], [[Nevada]], [[New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Oregon]], [[Tennessee]], [[Texas]], [[Utah]], [[Washington]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Wyoming]]. The railroad links every major West Coast and Gulf Coast port and provides service to the east through its four major gateways in Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. UP also operates key north/south corridors and is the only railroad to serve all six major gateways to Mexico, and interchanges traffic with the Canadian rail systems.<ref name="Map">[http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/maps/sysmap.shtml "UPRR System Map"] Union Pacific Railroad, accessed November 2009</ref>
==Real estate holdings==
Union Pacific Railroad is the largest landholder west of the Mississippi River and is second only to the United States government in overall landholdings within the United States.<ref>Adrien Litton,[http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring05articles/union-pacific.html "Union Pacific Railroad Locates Real Property Assets With GIS"] ArcNews, 2005</ref>
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The Union Pacific Corporation (not the railroad itself) was located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania until 1997, when Richard K. Davidson announced that it was moving to Dallas, Texas in September of that year. Two years later, on the sale of Skyway and the impending divestiture of Overnite, the UP corporate headquarters moved to Omaha to join the headquarters of the railroad.<ref name="Funding"/>
==Current Trackage==
Primarily concentrated west of the Mississippi River, UP directly owns and operates track in 23 U.S. states: [[Arizona]], [[Arkansas]], [[California]], [[Colorado]], [[Idaho]], [[Illinois]], [[Iowa]], [[Kansas]], [[Louisiana]], [[Minnesota]], [[Missouri]], [[Montana]], [[Nebraska]], [[Nevada]], [[New Mexico]], [[Oklahoma]], [[Oregon]], [[Tennessee]], [[Texas]], [[Utah]], [[Washington]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Wyoming]]. The railroad links every major West Coast and Gulf Coast port and provides service to the east through its four major gateways in Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. UP also operates key north/south corridors and is the only railroad to serve all six major gateways to Mexico, and interchanges traffic with the Canadian rail systems.<ref name="Map">[http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/maps/sysmap.shtml "UPRR System Map"] Union Pacific Railroad, accessed November 2009</ref>
==Real estate holdings==
Union Pacific Railroad is the largest landholder west of the Mississippi River and is second only to the United States government in overall landholdings within the United States.<ref>Adrien Litton,[http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring05articles/union-pacific.html "Union Pacific Railroad Locates Real Property Assets With GIS"] ArcNews, 2005</ref>
==Union Pacific Coal Company==
By 1890, the Union Pacific Coal Department was replaced by the Union Pacific Coal Company. The UP Coal Company was producing most of Wyoming's coal in mines located near Rock Springs, Wyoming.<ref name=wsgs/>
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